Family Ester was born to Jakub and Rebeka (
née Jaglom) Wajcblum in
Warsaw, Poland. She had an older sister, Sabina, and a younger sister,
Hanka Wajcblum (Anna Heilman).
Warsaw Ghetto The family, with the exception of Sabina who had married and left Poland, was forced into the
Warsaw Ghetto and in May 1943 were deported to
Majdanek where Ester and Hanka's parents were killed. On 7 October 1944 the Sonderkommandos used the gunpowder to blow up Crematorium IV in
Birkenau. Ala, Roza, Ester, and Regina were detained and tortured for their role in the plot. The women were publicly hanged in Birkenau on 5 January 1945. Hanka survived and was transferred to a sub-camp of
Ravensbrück called Neustadt Glewe. The camp was liberated in May 1945 when Hanka was sixteen years old. == References ==